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@Sucuk Ekmek What do immigration and nationalism have to do with special interests' grip on government?

@Eternal Unity What's his prescription now then? Just psychedelics?

@Eternal Unity And Leo endorses Kriya. Tho you be better off plugging 5-meo.

The Swedish government isn't run over with bribes and special interests like the US. Most countries aren't. The US might be a special case here.

@Ayham Im not an expert just an opinionated guy trying to figure this stuff out. The goal of kriya is to make you feel blissful and calm your mind. Think of it like the techniques are how to throw a basketball, and the bliss and calmness are like hitting the hoop. You only know if you are doing the techniques well if it makes you hit the goal. Kriya teachers are very unpedagogical in my opinion. Most kriya yogies are practising how to throw the basketball without any consideration for if it hits the hoop. How strong you are able to generate these feelings is like building a muscle. It might be medium strength at first, but as you open doors in your psyche and build the "muscle" you can eventually get to a place there it's like an orgasm. But if you feel close to nothing at first you are not doing it right. With regard to visualization: You should read Ennio Nimis' book on kriya to understand the subtleties of pulling energy. The goal is to generate a feeling of energy going up and down your body. With practice, you can feel the proper channel in your spine but this is not necessary for beginners. Visualization is just a means to generate feeling. You don't even need to visualize as long as you hit the hoop, which is to generate energy feeling. You don't have to upgrade your routine. It's not like you are gonna get all your results in the last 5 min of a 1h routine. All talk of you have to do this or that is dogma. If it works, it works. Mahamudra feels incredible to me. It's very grounding as I hit the rook chakra very hard as the energy descends down the spine. Santata Gamana got his pranayama from modifying the technique of a guy called Sri Rangin Mukherjee. His technique is to create bliss in the chakras by chanting om in them but instead of doing it in the body he does it in the middle of the head(agna chakra). Create a sense of radiation love in your chest. Notice how the same energetic feeling is also felt in your head. Now focus on the feeling in your head instead of your chest. With practice, you won't have to feel the chakra in the body at all, you just have to bring up a mental memory of it. When I do this it's so intense that I start shaking and twisting my body. I'm not good at handling pleasure. Sri Mukherjee does 6 oms per in- and out-breath going up and down the first 6 chakras(again, all in the head, there is no actual vertical movement). The technique requires you to be familiar with the chakras beforehand. Personally, I do one breath per chakra because I can't breathe slowly enough without rushing the technique. Sri Mukherjee's writings on his techniques are really bad, I don't recommend his books. It was hard for me to parse out his techniques. I would recommend practicing energy work fundamentals before getting into kriya. Tara Springett's teachings are good, especially her book 'Enlightenment through the path of Kundalini'. Try the technique I posted above in my other post.

@Zedman There are countries where drug reform is being considered. Having smart policy ideas out there for those countries is a good thing. I'm guessing you are American since you only seem to consider your own country or part of the world.

@Sucuk Ekmek I'm Swedish. Maybe war isn't a good word choice. Tho it's good rhetoric for getting conservatives on board. The problem with the war on drugs is that it's really a war on drug users. If you get the users out of the picture and effectively only target the marketers of heroin I don't see the problem.

Speak to the most intelligent person in the room. Let them be a good example to the rest.

Maybe start by figuring out how you be on your phone in the most healthy way possible. Instead of stopping watching youtube, find channels with the most educational content and unsubscribe to unhealthy channels. Get audiobooks. Keep one or two social media but remove the once that are the worst, TikTok for example. I only have Facebook. On there I follow some pages with beautiful photography. Introspect what it is you seek from your phone, maybe it's comfort, connection and joy. Maybe there are better ways of obtaining these things.

Something completely new that I never thought Leo would make a vid on. What I love most about Leo's vids is he opens my eyes to so many different things.

Email notifications for new blog posts. Ofc also an official tiktok channel where Leo does all the dances and challenges to get more reach.

Cultivate love. Feel your body as hollow and filled with beautiful energetic light of all colors. Breathe in feeling the middle of your chest. Breathe out as you create an explosion of love in your chest. It's an explosion of light and energy radiating out to the rest of your body. Also feel it radiating out from your body into the world, nourishing it. Feel the light forgiving you. All of you. yes. We need to make a distinction between psychological needs and physical needs. On the physical side, you have to survive. It can't be ignored. On the psychological side, I subscribe to a spirituality that doesn't see a conflict between lower needs and consciousness expansion. You should open all your chakras and as you open your lower chakras your energy will naturally rise to the higher chakras. The buddhist path is about ignoring the lower chakras/needs and going straight for enlightenment. This works in the short term as you can quickly get enlightenment experiences this way. But these enlightenment experiences often doesn't stick. It's common for buddhists to have had 10+ enlightenment experiences and still not be permanently enlightened. On the Hindu yogic path of kundalini, it's common that people get their first enlightenment when they have raised their kundalini all the way to the head. This takes a longer time but this way it sticks for good. Tho I subscribe to a combination of SantataGamanas kriya yoga and Tara Springetts tummo Buddhism which combines the two. Start the spiritual practice by cultivating bliss in the form of for example, comfort, pleasure, joy and love. Then when that bliss has stilled your mind, let go of everything and just sit.

@preventingdiabetes No, not as I understand it. Spiritual bypassing is a form of rationalization. It's not about how you prioritize but the story you are telling yourself about it. Gautama Buddha almost starving to death under the bodhi thee wasn't spiritual bypassing.

Only a sliver of our brains is responsible for consciousnesses so it's probably not sentient. Nor is it any more intelligent than moden neural networks. If we however manage to grow consciousnesses like this we have no way of knowing what kind of experiences we create, could be torture. This has the same ethical status as factory farms. Satanic shit.

SD modeling human values, not values as a whole. You gotta realize what SD is and isn't. It answers the specific question of how human values develop and that question shouldn't be expanded. If you want to model larger moral values development among different species, then you should create a new model. Also, human values develop linearly on one scale, It shouldn't be assumed that other animals can be put on that same scale.

"Nobody is intelligent enough to be 100% right 100% of the time" -Ken Wilber

My favorite debate so far is when the other guy admitted I'm right but thought that's it's inconsequential, so he didn't change his mind.

@Carl-Richard ye that's interesting.

JP thinks of chaos and order as being on a scale opposite to one another and life being about balancing between the two extremes. This has influenced my thinking greatly but recently I've intuited that his model is flawed. Here is finally my new and better model: What JP thinks of as chaos, I think of as novelty. I see chaos as something negative. I don't hold these to be opposites on a spectrum but rather as two separate axes. Life is about maximizing both without creating an imbalance by just focusing on just one. In this way, my model and JP's both advocate balance. Complexity, which could also be called life often expresses itself as evolution.

@Carl-Richard Ye, it's a description. I just want to model reality the best I can. Then how the truth is used that's secondary. You can stagnate or you can become too chaotic. You probably can't avoid novelty or order completely that's true, but you can have too little.

@Tyler Robinson I'm glad

@Tyler Robinson Aha. Then it seems that you don't make a distinction between tyranny and leadership, at least on an unconscious level. There is a saying: eat the cherry, spit out the seed. It's a metaphor that there are good and bad parts to most things and most ideas. We should separate the good from the bad, spit out the bad and integrate the good. Most people who wield power have a mixture of tyranny and leadership. As long as they have some amount of tyranny it's going to seem unpalatable for you. The trick is to make a distinction between the tyrannical and the leadership aspects of their power-wielding, then continue being repelled by the tyrannical side while you appreciate their leadership side. Does this help?

@Carl-Richard Pursue more novelty and more order forever. Never stagnate.

@Carl-Richard When you balance order and disorder perfectly you get a beautiful Picazo painting. But a painting is inanimate and doesn't develop. The logical conclusion of JP's model is that you should be a perfect painting, never too close to total order or total disorder to lose your beauty/harmony. But like a painting, without the axis of newness, you should remain like this forever, and that's the problem

Sounds like the root is fear or responsibility. When you are in control of something then it's on you if it goes wrong or someone gets unhappy.